Amerika No Shonin Shoju No Sakura O Motomete Oi Ni Kanki No Zu, 1861
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Image Title: Amerika No Shonin Shoju No Sakura O Motomete Oi Ni Kanki No Zu, 1861
Creator: Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873, artist
Date: 1861.
Summary: Japanese print shows a man admiring a bonsai tree in bloom, it possibly reminds him of his wife and brings to mind her portrait hanging in the upper left corner.
Notes: Clipping from a catalog on mat: "American merchant delightedly gazing at a dwarf tree in bloom. In the corner is a vignette of a lady in a bonnet of the period. The man is resplendent in a green frock coat, holding a long stick. By Sadahide, 1861. Moriji, publisher. Mino, Engraver."|Foreigners in Japan: Yokohama and related woodcuts in the Philadelphia Museum of Art / Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: The Museum, 1972, no. 34 (p. 25)
Related Names: Koizumi, Minokichi, 1833-1906
Subjects: Bonsai--1860-1870
Cherry trees--Japan--1860-1870
Foreign visitors--American--Japan--1860-1870
Merchants--Japan--1860-1870
Original Media: Woodcut print
Collections: Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 » more info...
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